No sympathy for Kreacher

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124486


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Janet Anderson" 
<norek_archives2 at h...> wrote:
  All  these people made conscious decisions -- CHOICES -- to 
do some things and  not to do others.  If Dobby could make the 
choices he did, then Kreacher could also.  (I think Kreacher is 
probably mentally unbalanced, but then I think Winky is too, so I 
don't excuse Kreacher on that account, because  Winky's bad 
choices such as alcoholism and self-neglect didn't impact the 
 lives of others, the way Kreacher's did.)

Pippin:
Oh, I think they do.  Other House Elves have to do the work that 
Winky is supposed to be doing.  Or that Dobby is supposed to 
be doing when he is taking care of her.

I think Dumbledore's point is that among the choices people can 
make is robbing other people of their freedom. If you steal 
someone else's freedom, then  you have some  responsibilty for 
the choices they make.  

Dumbledore allowed Harry to choose which House to belong to, 
even though he might well have chosen Slytherin; he returned 
Harry's cloak and the key to his Gringotts vault though Harry 
might well have used them unwisely, and in this he behaves very 
differently from Sirius, who will not free Kreacher or even treat 
him with respect.

Pippin